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Among other key findings, gender wage gap strongly persists among physicians as female docs make less regardless of geography, specialty.
In Minnesota and Wisconsin, nursing homes have denied admission to thousands of patients over the past year because they lack essential staff.
Andrew Hayek, who was CEO of Surgical Care Affiliates when it was acquired by Optum, named CEO of OptumHealth.
Country has grown increasingly dependent on the health sector to power the economy as Obamacare helped boost job growth, experts say.
Center for Children's Digestive Health shared protected health info with FileFax, but didn't have a BAA in place.
Employers in New York, Michigan and Illinois accounted for the most H-1B visa applications for foreign physicians, nearly a third of the total.
The federal government has proposed requiring that accreditors release reports on the problems they find during hospital inspections. Right now, the reports are secret.
Annals of Surgery found death rate decline in South Carolina in hospitals that chose to participate in the program.
Research measured antibiotic use hospital-wide and by unit before, during and after the implementation of program.
Aurora said Wednesday the project will produce numerous construction jobs, expand Aurora's local healthcare workforce.